to think that falling in your plate is not on at lunch?

[Hullygully]

So, Sunday lunch at a friend's yesterday. A couple that we know slightly are also invited. The woman who is very bright and very pleasant for the first hour, drinks so much that she is literally unable to speak (but doesn't stop trying), and we all carry on with lunch pretending that everything is normal and not laughing where she can see.

Is this normal? In any way?

Shirl: she was the love interest in the have you ever been to a Harvester before? advert .

God yes limitedperiod. Can you imaginate getting drunk at lunch and the next day someone rang you (who you's only met a couple of times) and said:

"I noticed you drank rather a lot yesterday. I thought I'd stick my massive hooter in just check that you're not a rampant alcoholic"

And yes the explanation is v good hully but I roared at the whole hair transplants in brackets as a summary of why the man is odd .

Fair enough Hully, you've voiced your concern which is all you can do.

Agent, sure she was laughing at the situation. It was a weird situation to be in when everyone pretends that the drunk woman in the corner is perfectly coherent. That would make me laugh too. But then I laugh at funerals precisely because of the pressure and the fact that there is this coffin stuck in the middle of the aisle that everyone is studiously ignoring. I'm an inappropriate giggler. My gran was like that too apparently, got caned all the time for giggling during prayers.

Now hair transplants - come on, that is FUNNY!
Did they take them from his pubes?

I'm so dying to tell you more about them, but I'd out them and get told off by the FB's.

I love the thought of drunkenly looking up adverts and shrieking when you see the person you know

I once, very drunkenly witj DP, announced that the only Rolling stones song I had heard of was Satisfaction, had never heard of any others. He said I was a liar and got out Spotify and started playing songs, I drunkenly shouted 'oh my god of COURSE I have heard brown sugar' and ended up doing Mick Jagger struts in the garden, with the X Box guitar

I really want to tell you about their house.

I think (sorry, only read page 1 of the thread so sorry if someone else says this) it's quite the opposite of an alcoholic. Having been married to one and diced with it myself...in that case, you become so focussed on hiding your drinking that, despite craving a glass with every fibre of your being, you'd probably remain relatively sober on a social occasion. It's when you're on your tod that the problem begins.

I think she just can't hold her drink, probably didn't have breakfast, and had been so looking forward to it she wanted to talk, plus was a wee bit embarrassed so thought maybe she could prove she wasn't tiddly by speaking...

I think it happens quite a lot with (nonAA) mums...so excited to get out (and scared too) you just overdo it a bit.

I wouldn't worry. Apart from her own personal mortification...

Do you remember that Pom Bear thread? That couldn't happen now.

ended up doing Mick Jagger struts in the garden, with the X Box guitar

oh we've all been there...

even if she is famed for it all it could simply mean she never drinks but when she does she is not good at judging her drinking and passes out

doesn't mean she has an alcohol problem it could just mean she has little experience with the stuff and doesnt realise how much she is drinking.

Do it Hully.

Ach, the pom bear thread. I didn't think it was that funny anyway.

The fucking is still here.

Do tell. May as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb. Baaaaa.

I know a third couple (god what is wrong with me?) where the man gets utterly shitfaced and goes over sideways. He is lovely and funny and very entertaining, but you have to catch him early doors. He is quite open about it and always apologises for one of his going over episodes when you next see him.

No, I didn't but people did enjoy it, and it was basically pointing and laughing at a pair of weirdo's. Nowadays it'd be all..."oh have you checked that they haven't got something wrong with them? YOU HORRIBLE BITCH"

I do wonder about this - when it becomes acceptable to say something to someone about their health when it's due to something they're doing to themselves.

I have a long family history of melanoma/moles. Imagine I was at a beach with someone who was visibly sunburned and has a reputation as a sun-worshipper, though very light skinned, and I could see a large and obvious mole on her arm that had changed since I had last seen her in a highly suspicious way (darker, larger, non-circular). However I don't know her that well. Is it my place to pull her aside and say "err I think your lifestyle and sunbathing may be causing this mole to change shape, I think you should get into the shade and get it checked out as soon as you can"? What if her DH is with her?

The pom bear thread was like a BBC sit com - nearly funny. I was clenching and clenching, willing it to spark off but no.

IMVHO, natch.

I think the people serving tomato soup were doing it as a complete wind up/dare. I hope so anyway, that would make it funnier.

I think Tyel, that it's not quite the same thing. Your knowledge makes you a mini-expert on moles - Hully may not be an expert on alcoholism.

I'm much better on potatoes

hahaha at 'nearly funny'. it was like a miranda sketch. Or an episode of My family.

Ditto to that incredibly arch poster a couple of weeks ago who had a long running thread about her neighbours 'extracting the urine'. Dismal.

"cut across in a straight fringe"

What? Like Friar Tuck?

GetOrf are you still illing chickie?

yes, without the bald bit